April 2009
March 2009
“Maybe once a year, a city has a news day as heavy as the one that just hit...”
– The Annals of Bad Timing :: Swampland - TIME.com (via heyitsnoah)
Watchbliptv:
The Web Series: A Closer Look
The future of entertainment is the web show — but dow do you buy food, get extras and create a full web series on no budget? The creators of the critically-acclaimed, innovative internet series, Break a Leg share their experiences.
““More people are hearing about it than actually using it,” Nicholas Carlson, an...”
– Twitter: Twitter taking over the universe? — baltimoresun.com (via lunchfood)
I jsut want it to be clear that I am the creator of “If it tweets it leads”. In fact, I twittered it here.
(via josephweisenthal)
“The layoffs and Dennis’s arrival reflects a change in Google’s sales...”
– Google’s Layoffs, Explained (GOOG)
Jon Miller To Become King Of News Corp Digital... →
This is great news for Jon and News Corp. Congratulations all around.
On Internet Advertising →
heyitsnoah:
I got an email from Ryan yesterday asking me if I had any thoughts on the TechCrunch internet advertising is dead post. I hadn’t read it yet (I kind of suspected it wasn’t that good when…
“Numerous reports have been called in to this office and into local law...”
– National Weather Service
USAF: ‘Bright light’ not man-made object - wtop.com
“But knowing that the community I connect with on Twitter can (a) now answer...”
– Dennis Crowley
explaining his love for the twitter koolaid in Jeeeeez when did I become such a Twitter fanboy?
(via msg)
“After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and...”
– TS Eliot, in his misguided rejection of Orwell’s Animal Farm (via jeffmiller)
Arguments Are Overrated
johncarney:
People who are good at making arguments overrate the value of arguments. The verbally adroit among us often demand that disputes of many sorts should be decided on the basis of debate. This demand is particularly acute for public policy disputes. The idea is that policy choices should be subject to rigorous public scrutiny and that this should result in the policy for which the best...
I’m at Angel’s Share with @allimooney.
I’m at Angel’s Share (8 Stuyvesant St, btw 2nd & 3rd, NYC) .
three Sundays in a row at angel share. get mayor. have alli steal it 3 seconds later. I hate u foursquare!!!!!
Mayor wars
I’m at Cafe Colonial (276 Elizabeth St, at Houston, NYC) .
“Cool only lasts for so long, but being useful is something that applies to...”
– Chris Cox, Facebook
Facebook at 5 - Is It Growing Up Too Fast? NYTimes.com
“How can Facebook remain a place for teenagers to share what they did on Saturday...”
– Facebook at 5 - Is It Growing Up Too Fast? - NYTimes.com
“Facebook is trying to teach members to use privacy settings to manage their...”
– Facebook at 5 - Is It Growing Up Too Fast? - NYTimes.com
Yes, because enabling privacy settings turn into more of a “headache” to the common user (particularly the exploding 35+ demographic) when they are hidden behind a deceptively simple (yet, really complex) UI. (via datainsightsideas)
I’m at Via della Pace (48 E 7th St, btw 1st & 2nd, NYC) .
I’m at Burp Castle with @potatono @ericmortensen.
“We’ll finish this discussion when I have a loaded paintball gun.”
– BRAND + CONTENT: Add-Art: replace online advertising with art
Does that mean that you’re acknowledging that you can’t win on the merits of your argument, and must therefore resort to violence? I smell victory.
Add-Art: replace online advertising with art →
brandpluscontent:
mikehudack:
…Standardization is what allows businesses to operate at scale. It may be that standards need to be refreshed every few years, but a lack of standardization leads to a lack of dollars.
Refreshing every two years just isn’t fast enough in a digital world that is evolving faster than anyone can keep up. The best solution right now for marketers is to fill...
Add-Art: replace online advertising with art →
brandpluscontent:
(via personalhomepage)
Just another reason why standardizing ad formats doesn’t work. People quickly learn what can be ignored, and there’s always a second technology ready to outsmart the first.
I disagree. Standardization is what allows businesses to operate at scale. It may be that standards need to be refreshed every few years, but a lack of standardization leads to a...
Sales Jump 11% After Asics Gives TV Advertising a... →
Don’t kid yourselves. TV works.
“This is the first time a toilet-paper brand has partnered with a downloadable...”
– Charmin Shows BlackBerry, iPhone Users Where Restrooms Are - Advertising Age - Digital
“After nearly a decade of providing free, clean public restrooms everywhere from...”
– Charmin Shows BlackBerry, iPhone Users Where Restrooms Are - Advertising Age - Digital
More brand utility.
“Walmart has chosen the Interpublic Group of Cos. digital shop R/GA to develop...”
– Walmart Taps Agency R/GA to Beef Up Digital Marketing - Agency News - Advertising Age
It’s all about brand utility. From Nike+ to Home Depot TV to SaveMoneyLiveBetter.com. All about brand utility.
“Russia is planning to create a dedicated military force to help protect its...”
– Russia plans to create Arctic military force
“Switzerland’s private banks have started to ban their top executives from...”
– Swiss banks ban top executive travel
“Read that again: streaming music startups don’t want more people using their...”
– The Sorry State Of Music Startups - Techcrunch, 3/27/09.
Arrington at his best.
(via mokoyfman)
Where are tax revenues going?
squashed:
I spent a few minutes looking over past Federal spending—and the results illustrate pretty clearly how “cutting the pork” isn’t going to meaningfully reduce the deficit. Here’s where some of the federal spending:
24.8% - Defense, mostly for the Department of Defense.
22.5% - Healthcare, mostly in medicare and medicaid
22.3% - Social Security and pensions
8.2% - Interest
All of...
I went long on NYT this morning
The rationale: the New York Times is best positioned to build a solid, enduring and profitable brand on the Internet. It helps that they’re laying people off and cutting payroll.
I bought NYT at market open this morning and it’s already up 5% intraday.
NYT joins MSFT and JBLU in my portfolio. My MSFT is up 10.91% since I picked it up, and my JBLU is up a pathetic 0.23% (although,...
Is online advertising more effective than...
Does anyone know the answer to this question?
My gut: Online advertising is more effective at certain things (i.e. driving actual purchase) while television advertising is typically more effective at other things (i.e. driving brand affinity).
Our hope is that online video offers a perfect hybrid of these two, and is ultimately evaluated on both scores. There’s a battle on right now,...
“You may claim a kidnapped child as your dependent if the following requirements...”
– That IRS, never lacking a sense of humor.
Tax Topics - Topic 357 Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children via Marginal Revolution
(via heyitsnoah)
“It’s 140 characters. It’s so few characters. If you need a ghostwriter for that,...”
– Shaquille O’Neal - aka @the_real_shaq - commenting on people who use ghost writers on Twitter
When Stars Twitter, a Ghost May Be Lurking - NYTimes.com
(via mdoeff)
(via bijan)
Financial experts say recession ends by year's end... →
tanya77:
soupsoup:
theressomethingaboutmary:
Take that, Mary.
Fingers crossed.
LOL. That’s hysterical.
I’m optimistic that we’re already nearing the bottom. Advertising in the second quarter is strengthening significantly against what we’ve saw in first quarter.
“Only 5 of “top 20″ US Advertisers spent more than the industry average of 8% of...”
– Interesting factoids out of latest Morgan Stanley “Economy and Internet Trends” research report « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog
tedr says: There’s a tidal wave of advertising spending coming to the Internet. It may being held back by recession dangers, but once the dam burst and they give...
Google Fires Hundreds In Sales And Marketing →
“A sober review of Reagan’s presidency doesn’t yield the seamlessly conservative...”
– Joshua Green, “Reagan’s Liberal Legacy”, Washington Monthly (via soupsoup)